Happy 4th of July everybody!! Hope you are enjoy the holiday and remember our men and women all around the world fighting for and preserving our freedoms!!
The annual Chicago fireworks show was on the 3rd at 930pm. It was over Navy Pier on the Lakefront, so a few of my classmates and I parked our butts at the Adler Planetarium for the day. We had a tent, snacks and homemade sangria. It was a really nice afternoon and we just hung out and waited for the show.
A couple was married at the Adler today in an outdoor ceremony. It was VERY upscale and forma. Everybody had suits and fancy cocktail dresses. And there were no children other than the flower girl. It seemed very impersonal to me with all the people that were down there waiting for the fireworks show. Oh and their music selection was the ODDEST selection I have ever heard. It sounded like the Cure at one point and then there was some reggae...this was before the Bride came out. Then she was ready to come out and they had a recording of the Bridal March which went to hell and didnt work. So they came up with quick thinking and she walked out to....The Star Wars Theme!!! Oh my gaaawd....I would have been sooooo pissed off. She handled it gracefully though, but it was a very strange and very short ceremony. It was also really humid today...yet another reason I dont want a summer wedding...
It was a great fireworks show, probably the best I've seen other than the New Years Eve fireworks I witnessed at Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. What was really cool is that the skyline is sort of panoramic at the Adler so I could see the entire skyline from where we were sitting. The other really cool part was all the boats on the water. After the sun went down, the skyline was lit up and it seemed like the entire lake was covered in lights from all the boats. All in all, a good 4th of July celebration.
And now...The Star Spangled Banner...
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
2 comments:
What, no verse 2 or 3? j/k :-p
I bet the fireworks were amazing. I can only imagine. Last year we were in the cities for the 4th, so we saw some nice shows there, too.
I considered verse 2 and 3 but I'm always thinking that others are reading this thing (like I'm so freaking popular right?) and would be like WTF song is that?? That moron doesnt know the national anthem...haaaaa!
Hope you had a good 4th too!
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